Re: IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem

2011-01-28 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2011-01-28, digy digy wrote: >>> * It's not possible to make custom changes in IKVMed Lucene.NET >>> unless you make your changes in java sources and compile them. >> Wouldn't a "custom change" contradict the goal of a line-by-line >> translation? > What I intented to say was customizations

Re: IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem

2011-01-28 Thread digy digy
>> * It's not possible to make custom changes in IKVMed Lucene.NET unless you >> make your changes in java sources and compile them. > Wouldn't a "custom change" contradict the goal of a line-by-line > translation? What I intented to say was customizations made by Lucene.Net users, not as a Luc

Re: IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem

2011-01-28 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi DIGY On 2011-01-28, digy digy wrote: > * Java's bytecode doesn't contain metadata about generics and when Java is > compiled, all info about generics gets lost. So, IKVMed Lucene.Net will have > to live without generics. Ah, yes, the joys of type erasure. I completely missed that. > * IKVM

Re: IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem

2011-01-28 Thread digy digy
Hi Stefan, * Java's bytecode doesn't contain metadata about generics and when Java is compiled, all info about generics gets lost. So, IKVMed Lucene.Net will have to live without generics. * IKVM is the java world in .NET runtime in fact. If you are , for ex, to write an analyzer, you have to ov

Re: IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem

2011-01-27 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2011-01-27, Granroth, Neal V. wrote: > Use of IKVM was discussed before. I'm really sorry. Normally I wouldn't have brought it up without searching the archive - I did so in the context of "this is a question the people we hope to attract might ask". Please be patient with the new people we

Re: IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem

2011-01-27 Thread Ayende Rahien
It would also have drastic affects on other people using Lucene for commercial and OSS projects. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Hi, > > sorry I started this before doing my homework. If we took the IKVM > route Lucene.NET's binary distribution could not bundle the Ope

IKVM (or rather OpenJDK) License Problem

2011-01-27 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi, sorry I started this before doing my homework. If we took the IKVM route Lucene.NET's binary distribution could not bundle the OpenJDK derived DLLs. They are licensed as GPL2 + Classpath Exception[1] which is part of the list of explicitly prohibited licenses for ASF distributions[2]. This